Morrisville rejectsTech School budget for 2011-12
Posted: Friday, July 1, 2011 4:16 pm | Updated: 6:45 pm, Fri Jul 1, 2011.
MORRISVILLE SCHOOLS — The Morrisville School District didn't approve the Bucks County Technical High School budget for the upcoming school year.
"The total tech school budget for 2011-12 was $21,534,573," Paul DeAngelo, Morrisville's business administrator said. "(The) total district share was $18,258,957; Morrisville's portion was $930,293."
All board members voted not to approve the budget at last week's school board meeting, except for school director Gloria Heater. She was absent.
The district has been holding payments for months, because officials believe the tech school is overcharging. The district was charged about $740,000 for the 2010-2011 school year.
But at Wednesday's meeting, the board voted in favor of making a $522,027 payment "in good faith."
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Morrisville School District drops the hammer on Bucks County Tech School budget, makes $500,000-plus payment
Published: Thursday, June 30, 2011
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By John Williams
BucksLocalNews.com
MORRISVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT – School Board President Bill Hellmann made a motion last night (Wednesday, June 30) to administer a sizable payment of $522,000 to the Bucks County Technical School.
Hellmann said the board is willing to pay the “average of all area school districts” and said that they’re continuing to dispute “the excessive amount of money that Morrisville is being charged.” He said the district has also asked for an audit of the technical school.
The motion passed unanimously, 8-0, with no dissenting opinions.
Board member John DeWilde noted that the technical school has agreed to keep the budget conversation open between itself and Morrisville in an attempt to explain how the budget is interpreted, however futile that might be.
Jack Buckman, a school board member and technical school liaison, said the intent is to “cut back on costs.”
Hellmann told the Yardley News that litigation with the technical school is pending and that the Pennsylvania Department of Education is fully aware of the budget battle.
“We made a good faith payment based on the average actual cost per student over the past five years,” he said. “That includes all students and all six school districts. We ask to be treated fairly and we do not believe we should be charged more per student than the other school districts,” he said, referring to larger districts such as neighboring Pennsbury.
After the motion was approved, the board voted unanimously, 0-8, to not approve the technical school budget for the 2011-12 school year.
Originally published Thursday, June 30.
These are the votes I've seen from a little google searching on-line. Haven't seen anything for Bensalem, Bristol Twp. It's July 1, so they must have voted on it. 17-17 without them. A real nail biter!
REJECTED
Bristol Boro (0-8)
Morrisville (0-8)
APPROVED
Pennsbury (9-0)
Neshaminy (8-1)
Just make up your own formula and pay what you feel like paying, actual prescribed formula and amount be damned?I'm going to try that when I'm out and about today. Will someone with bail money wait for my call (collect, of course)?
FYI,
This year's tech school budget = $21,534,573
Last year's tech school budget = $22,513,051
Change = DOWN $978,478 (-4.35%)
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